- [while she goes walking through the bamboo forest]
- Shiki Ryogi: [Voice-Over] As the night goes, the dark does so. I think I walk on the empty city because I want to be alone. Or maybe, I want to think I'm alone?
- Shiki Ryogi: In short, multiple personality.
- [Showing a paper where the names Shiki and SHIKI written in Japanese, which despite sounding the same way, are spelled differently]
- Shiki Ryogi: I am SHIKI, and the girl you know is Shiki. but we are not two different people, Shiki Ryogi is always one person. the only difference between us is our priorities.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Priorities?
- Shiki Ryogi: I just wanted to talk to you, Kokutou, is all, is something that Shiki did not want to do, so I'm doing that for her.
- [to Mikiya]
- Shiki Ryogi: Got it?
- Mikiya Kokutou: Mmm... kind of. But why are you telling me this?
- Shiki Ryogi: I just could not keep hiding you for long.
- [Takes a sip of juice]
- Shiki Ryogi: Basically, I'm the rebellious impulse of Shiki. Be a rebel is what I do. But until now, there was no one I wanted to direct this impulse.
- [Mikiya observes her surprised]
- Shiki Ryogi: But don't worry. She and I may be different, but I'm still Shiki. I'm not gonna turn in a crazy one suddenly. But lately, we are not in harmony.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Hmm?
- Shiki Ryogi: Well, Shiki controls her body no matter how hard I try, Now I know you just because Shiki agreed to. Well, probably she repents that later. Shiki never would say it's OK to go or hang out with you, right?
- Mikiya Kokutou: You're right.
- Shiki Ryogi: I like how do You think about that, but Shiki don't. And this is what I mean by not being in harmony.
- [She gets up from her chair]
- Shiki Ryogi: Well, that's all for today.
- [Puts on her jacket and leaves a few coins on the bar]
- Shiki Ryogi: See you.
- [Turning away from Mikiya]
- Shiki Ryogi: Hey, I like you, so we'll meet again.
- [while he is walking through the bamboo forest]
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Voice Over] When I was a child, I was afraid of ghosts. Shadows of bamboo trees looked like monsters, and frightened me. But now I fear to "Humans". I fear that someone is hiding behind the bamboo trees. When we realized that ghosts are simply unknown strangers? I could not pull out of my head the terrible premonition I had... Now that I think, Shiki said something about it.
- [last lines]
- Mikiya Kokutou: [June 1998] Well, I'm leaving. I'll be back in two hours.
- Touko Aozaki: Buy me something, Will ya?
- [Mikiya leaves the Touko's office]
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Voice Over] I'm going to visit the hospital every Saturday afternoon. I don't know what kind of pain afflicted her or what she was thinking about.
- [He buys a bouquet of flowers in a tent]
- Mikiya Kokutou: I don't know why she tried to kill me. But that slight smile that showed me in the last minute was more than enough. I remember Shiki standing in the glow of the Sunset after school. In the fiery sunset, shiki asked me What side of her do I believed so much. I will repeat what I said then: "I have no basis whatsoever, but probably still believe in you." "I like you, so, I want to keep believing in you."...
- [while he is going to the hospital]
- Mikiya Kokutou: She has not killed anyone. I'm sure. Because Shiki knows the suffering of murder. You are both victim and the aggressor, so You know how sad it is. That's why I believe in you. Shiki, who can't be hurt, and SHIKI, who knows only suffering. You were always so fragile, always close to get hurt.
- [He goes across the corridors of the hospital]
- Mikiya Kokutou: You were never able to speak from your heart, so full of sadness.
- [Mikiya arrives to her room where he sees to Shiki lying in a coma state]
- Mikiya Kokutou: April 1995, I've known her.
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Smiling] You look so distant as usual, Shiki
- Shiki Ryogi: The weather is nice right now, but I guess it will begin to cool soon.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Are you going to keep using that even in the winter?
- Shiki Ryogi: Probably, but will be fine, because I put something else on top.
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Smiling] Then there is something you can use over a kimono?
- [Mikiya gets up from the chair]
- Shiki Ryogi: Sure
- Mikiya Kokutou: [as he leaves the classroom] Hey, What about a leather jacket?
- Lio Shirazumi: Miss... Ryogi?
- Shiki Ryogi: Yes, that's me. What do you want?
- Lio Shirazumi: Looking for Kokutou?
- Shiki Ryogi: And who the hell are you?
- Lio Shirazumi: I know you're angry but, Do it that thing four times is not too much for a young like...?
- [He turns away from Shiki without finishing the sentence, leaving her very upset]
- Akitaka Suzurigi: Thank you for your effort, How was the encounter with your father?
- Shiki Ryogi: Get lost, Akitaka. I can change myself. You know, you're not my personal servant. Why don't you go to serve my elder brother? After all, is the man who will inherit the lead.
- Akitaka Suzurigi: No, You are the only possible successor to the Ryogi family. It's because your older brother did not inherit the attribute.
- Shiki Ryogi: [She walks away angry, talking to herself] And what is good with that crap?
- Shiki Ryogi: [while she looks in her underwear in the mirror] If he discovers that there's another Shiki inside me, What would he think about it?
- Gakuto: Come on, tell me. Don't leave me disappointed.
- Mikiya Kokutou: It is a misunderstanding, Shiki is just a friend, nothing more.
- Gakuto: [Pushy] Shiki, huh? It is impossible for her to let a simple classmate like you address her in a so informal way.
- Mikiya Kokutou: She asked me to. She does not like being called by his surname, or being called "Miss Shiki"
- Gakuto: [Shocked] Really?
- Mikiya Kokutou: She looked at me horribly one day when I called her "Miss Ryogi".
- Gakuto: Wow, how scary.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Now do you understand?
- Gakuto: Hey, but why Ryogi? No matter how you look, she seems of your type!
- Mikiya Kokutou: Shiki is not scary
- Gakuto: So... What happened with "She is nothing more than a friend"? She is a scary woman. If you can't realize it, that means you're in love.
- [Mikiya looks at his watch, then yawns of boredom]
- Shiki Ryogi: What's Up, Kokutou! Did you wait too long?
- [Mikiya sees Shiki getting in to the mall using an orange kimono instead of her usual blue kimono, with a red leather jacket on top]
- Shiki Ryogi: I'm sorry, I took time to get rid of Akitaka.
- [Mikiya does not respond]
- Shiki Ryogi: What? Are you upset because I was only an hour late? You're very impatient, Dude!
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Shocked] Um... You are Shiki, right?
- Shiki Ryogi: Well, yeah.
- [Pushy]
- Shiki Ryogi: Do I look like something else? Anyway, we're wasting time here.
- [Takes Mikiya's hand and takes him by force]
- Shiki Ryogi: You choose where we go, Come on!
- Shiki Ryogi: [as SHIKI] Kokutou, have you ever wanted to kill someone?
- Mikiya Kokutou: Until now... no.
- Shiki Ryogi: I see, but is the only emotion I have. I'm responsible for the Shiki's repressed thoughts, so I've always killed my will. I have always been killing the darkness that is inside my being. I killed myself over and over again. I told you that people can only express the emotions they have, right?
- [Mikiya nods]
- Shiki Ryogi: You see, the only emotion I have experienced... is murder... So Kokutou...
- [Approaching Mikiya]
- Shiki Ryogi: ... the definition that Shiki has of murder is...
- [Leaning towards Mikiya]
- Shiki Ryogi: ... killing me. She tries to kill all that get me afloat. Shiki wants to kill all who attempt to raise her cover, in order to stay protected
- [Shiki leaves, leaving Mikiya pretty confused]
- Mikiya Kokutou: You look a little annoyed, Shiki.
- Shiki Ryogi: [Angry] A LITTLE? I don't understand, but I get annoyed when you're around. I don't understand why do you get involved with me, and why your attitude has not changed after all I said.
- Mikiya Kokutou: I don't know why. It's fun to be with you, but I don't know why it's fun. Well, it may be optimistic if we talk about what happened yesterday.
- Shiki Ryogi: Kokutou, Do you understand that I'm a freak?
- Mikiya Kokutou: Yes, you're definitely not normal.
- Shiki Ryogi: Right? Then you should accept that fact. I'm not someone you can relate in a normal way.
- Mikiya Kokutou: It doesn't matter if you are normal or not.
- Shiki Ryogi: But I can't be like you.
- [Shiki raises her left arm, showing that carries the arm bandaged under the sleeve]
- Mikiya Kokutou: Shiki, that wound...
- Shiki Ryogi: [Getting up fron the ground, while She's hiding the bandage] I did it during the last murder.
- Mikiya Kokutou: [as if the Shiki's words were a joke] Oh, come on...
- Shiki Ryogi: If the SHIKI's words don't make you react, I'll tell you by myself. If we keep this up...
- [Towards Mikiya]
- Shiki Ryogi: ...Probably I end up killing you.
- [Mikiya sees Shiki walking away]
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Voice-Over] Gakuto was right. I should have realized that before... I'm mad about her.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Is about the serial killings?
- Daisuke Akimi: Yes. Three days ago, they found the sixth victim.
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Quite Surprised] But...
- Daisuke Akimi: The information is being controlled. They decided it was not productive to increase the public concern.
- Mikiya Kokutou: You said something about going to my school. What happened with that?
- Daisuke Akimi: What? The last time you did not you sounded interested, but now it seems that you are very interested.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Come on, just tell me.
- Daisuke Akimi: Well. We found a bit of skin that was in the nails of the victim. I assume that the victim strongly resisted.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Does it mean that the murderer is wounded?
- Daisuke Akimi: Yes, laboratory equipment assumes that the murderer has a large cut around his or her elbow.
- [Mikiya remembers have seeing to Shiki with a similar wound]
- Daisuke Akimi: [Excited] We are doing blood tests, so we should soon have him or her cornered.
- [Mikiya is in shock]
- Daisuke Akimi: What happen, Mikiya? You look pale.
- [while Mikiya sees her in front of a decapitated corpse]
- Shiki Ryogi: [Voice Over] Be careful, Kokutou. A terrible premonition tends to attract a horrible reality.
- Shiki Ryogi: Kokutou, you... In the night of February 3, you...
- Mikiya Kokutou: [Interrupting her] Don't talk about it, nothing happened.
- Shiki Ryogi: [Angrily] What do you mean nothing happened, Kokutou? Tell me, Why did not you tell nothing to the police?
- Mikiya Kokutou: Because I didn't see it. Coincidentally you were there, that was all I saw. So I decided to believe in you.
- [Evasive]
- Mikiya Kokutou: Is painful indeed, so I'm giving my best. I think I can hear your reasons when I'm more sure of myself. Let's don't talk about it right now.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Never thought you'd come talk to me. Are you going to stop ignoring me?
- Shiki Ryogi: If I called you is because I can't keep doing that. You said I'm not a murderer.
- [Rising from her chair]
- Shiki Ryogi: Too bad. I'm a murderer, You saw the crime scene. So why are you ignoring that?
- Mikiya Kokutou: I'm not ignoring nothing because you did nothing.
- Shiki Ryogi: Despite the fact that I'm telling you?
- Mikiya Kokutou: You can't do that. I'm sure of that.
- Shiki Ryogi: [Walking towards a window] What you mean you're sure? What part of me do you understand?
- [Looking at Mikiya]
- Shiki Ryogi: What side of me do you believe so much?
- Mikiya Kokutou: I have no basis whatsoever, but I probably still believe in you... You see, I like you, so, I want to keep believing in you.
- Shiki Ryogi: [Elusive] You're a fool.
- Mikiya Kokutou: Yes, people told me that many times.
- Shiki Ryogi: [while she leaves the classroom] Hey, Kokutou... Will you come... tonight?
- [Mikiya is surprised]
- Shiki Ryogi: [as SHIKI, on top of Mikiya while is turning her knife on his neck] Kokutou... say something... KOKUTOU!
- Mikiya Kokutou: I... I don't want to die
- Shiki Ryogi: I want to kill you...
- [Cut to black, the sound of a passing car is heard]
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